Show I 1 GUE 11 ni aig 6 VICTIM SUPPOSED TO HAVE CON COW t fa GROUND SQUIRRELS f 11 tiff 10 1 I 1 ai I 1 1 y r 0 if i I 1 Vi vigorous porous effort W will ill de oe made by the T rie ca atha officials to exterminate these infection 0 Cair carrying dairying ying rodents t ta 4 diw y ento cal the discovery 1 a few lays days ago of an authenticated casa caso ot bubonic bulon tc plague in bunola alameda county has haa inspired the state board of health to renewed activity in the campaign against the ground round squirrel an in that and adjacent counties at a meeting of the board it was decided to prosecute the work with more vigor than in an e effort to exterminate these infection carrying rod rodents joseph Alen mendoza doza tho the youth who I 1 Is S ill with the plague in the alameda hospital Is supposed to have contracted thedis the disease easo through eating or handling han jlong infected squirrels elp hilled ly by him on a hunting trip thousands of squirrels have been killed hilled or caught by hunters inthe in the employ of the alie marine hospital service and bacteriological examination has haa demonstrated ali the e existence of plague among them but not to an alarming extent the eff effort of these officials Is now being directed largely to the discovery of an all efficient method of squirrel extermination and some soine interesting in i 1 experiments are being made to t this h 1 s end |